47. Proud Lady Margaret.
P. 426. Add: ‘La fille damnée,’ Daymard, p. 178; ‘La sposa morta,’ Archivio, VIII, 274; the “romance” in Ballesteros, Cancionero popular gallego, III, 256; see also the “romance” ‘Bernal Francez’ from Algarve in Encyclopedia Republicana, Lisbon, 1882, p. 156.
49. The Twa Brothers.
I.
P. 435, V, 217. Communicated by Mr J. K. Hudson of Manchester. Sung after a St George play regularly acted on All Souls’ Day at a village a few miles from Chester, and written down for Mr Hudson by one of the performers, a lad of sixteen. The play was introduced by a song called Souling (similar to a Stephening, see I, 234), and followed by two songs, of which this is the last, the whole dramatic company singing.
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‘And it’s where hast thou been all this night long, my son?
Come tell it unto me.’
‘I have been lying on yonder bull-rushes,
Which lies beneath yond tree.’